The fiber infrastructure industry’s largest gathering returns to Nashville, June 13–16, 2027, at the Gaylord Opryland Resort.
Fiber has always connected people to information. Now it connects intelligence to action. The same glass that reaches homes and businesses also links data centers, powers the edge, steadies the grid and will carry the quantum internet.
Fiber Connect 2027 is built for that bigger picture. More than 5,000 operators, builders, technologists, investors and policymakers come together for four days of deals, deployment strategy and the ideas shaping the next decade. Every attendee shares the main stage and the Expo Hall. Then each one follows the experience built for their work.
Choose Your Experience
The FTTH Experience
For operators, ISPs, rural telcos, municipal and tribal providers, contractors, and vendors.
Everything it takes to build, fund and run a fiber network. Follow a network from financing and construction to customer experience and community impact, then head to the Expo Hall floor.
- General session panels on construction, funding and the customer experience
- Deep dives on supply chain, AI-driven deployment, economic development, and community anchors
- The OpTIC Path™ Rodeo, Fiber Academy and the Expo Hall
The Ai & Quantum Infrastructure Experience
For data centers, hyperscalers, neoclouds, advanced utilities, AI and quantum companies, and the networks that connect them.
Fiber is the nervous system of the Thinking Economy. The AI and Quantum Infrastructure Pavilion brings together the people building the backbone for AI and quantum computing.
- Pavilion Theater programs on neoclouds, agentic AI, edge AI and hyperscale readiness
- General session panels with leaders from Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Lumen, T-Mobile, D-Wave and OpenAI
- The Quantum Discovery Hub, with live quantum networking demonstrations on the Expo Hall floor
The Executive Experience
Invite-only for CEOs, C-level leaders, and investors.
Where the decisions that shape fiber get made. You’ll get private forums, curated introductions and time with the people setting the industry’s direction.
- The C Suite Forum, with a keynote from Paul Dabbar, Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Commerce
- The new Broadband Investment Forum, with one-on-one meetings between investors and service providers
- Executive briefings on data center development and edge inference, plus the Executive Experience Lounge
The Public Policy Experience
For elected officials, policymakers, broadband offices, public interest groups and the industry advocates who work with them.
Fiber is critical national infrastructure and requires dedicated discourse. The Infrastructure Policy Upload puts policymakers in the room with the companies that build networks and the companies that drive demand for them.
- A quantum policy keynote from D-Wave
- AI and quantum priorities from IBM, SeedAI and the Quantum Strategy Institute
- Netflix, Meta, Amazon and Zoom on why demand drivers should champion broadband
Not Sure Where to Start?
Most attendees mix and match. Full registration opens the general sessions, the Expo Hall, networking opportunities, and the full content program.
Shared by every experience
General Sessions
the Expo Hall
The industry’s largest showcase of fiber technology, plus the new AI and Quantum Infrastructure Pavilion.
Networking
Join the Welcome Reception, the Fiber Connect Awards Gala, the Women of Fiber Connect Luncheon, and meet-ups throughout the week.
